Issues on Education and

Research: Volume 3

Edited by

Gregory T. Papanikos

Athens Institute for Education and Research

2013

Issues on Education and

Research: Volume 3

Edited by

Gregory T. Papanikos

ATINER 2013

Issues on Education and

Research: Volume 3

First Published in Athens, Greece by the Athens Institute for Education and Research.

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Table of Contents Introduction

Gregory T. Papanikos

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Part I: Technology and Information

1. Achieving Interdisciplinary Learning in Doctoral

Study in Nanomedicine

Mary H. Shann

3

2. Academic Librarianship Issues in Developed and

Underdeveloped Countries

Carlos Gabriel Wong-Martínez

17

3. The Effects of e-learning in teaching a Course

Unit

Maria de Fátima Goulão

31

4. Innovation in E-Reader: Sharing Note-taking on

Social Networking Service

Yun-Ting Su and Shelley Shwu-Ching Young

43

5. Integrating the Four-Frame Webcomics with Hyperlinks and Social Networking Site as

Motivations of Learning about Chinese Lunar

Festivals Wei-Chen Hong and Shelley Shwu-Ching Young

51

6. How ICTs are changing the way we live

Maria de Fátima Goulão

61

7. Muta – Morphosis

Murat Germen 73

8. The Most Effective Means of Reaching Students who Require Help

Nicole Racette, Louise Sauvé, David Moisan and Normand Bourgault

87

9. Health Education as a Leading Factor in Adult

Health Competence Building

Inara Upmale

101

10. Readily Available Technology Integration in an Early Childhood Education Preservice

Curriculum: Issues and Strategie

Howard P. Parette, Jr.

111

11. The Effectiveness of the Computer-Assisted

Teaching Method on Students’ Achievement in

Science Education Ezgi Güven, Elvan İnce Aka, Pınar Fettahlıoğlu, Ayşe Sert Çıbık, Alev Doğan and Mustafa Aydoğdu

129

Part II: Education and the Market Place

12. Correlation between Company Feedback and Self-

Reflections on Professional Competences for Science and Engineering Interns

Esther Vinken and Jetse C. Reijenga

139

13. Pre Business 101 “Professors, L’oréal and Students Unite Through the Kallystee Game*”

Daniel Tixier

149

14. The Business Case for Corporate Social Responsibility in Education

Elena Bundaleska and Makedonka Dimitrova

163

15. Recruitment Models for Lifelong Careers

Jens Graff 175

Part III: Teaching and Teachers: Early, Primary and Secondary

16. Sexuality Education in the University Setting:

Necessity or Luxury? Sara B. Oswalt and Tammy J. Wyatt

195

17. The Challenge of Motivating Engineering

Students Daniela M. Campos and Ana C. Queiroz

209

18. The Confrontation of Experienced Teachers' with

some Challenges of M.Ed. Studies in Environmental Education

Yehudith Weinberger and Amos Dreyfus

217

19. Scaffolding the Continuing Professional

Development of Science Teachers’ Classroom Practice

Emmanuel Mushayikwa

233

20. Solving Problems on a Blackboard as a Traditional Social Norm in Slovenian

Mathematics Classrooms

Alenka Lipovec and Darja Antolin

249

21. Group Assessment; A Study on the Impact of

Students’ within Group Attitudes

Mona Shekarriz and Alireza Mousavi

263

22. Assessing reading in a Period of Change:

Early Years Teachers’ Views

Angeliki Kostopoulou and David Wray

277

23. Differentiating Instruction Based on Individual Differences in Primary School Science

Classrooms

Pinar Özdemir

295

24. The Effects of Poster Applications in Science

Education in the Unit “The Solar System and

Beyond: The Puzzle of the Space” on Students’ Academic Achievement

Esra Benli and Alev Dogan

307

25. 6 Year Old Pre-School Children’s Perception of “Past”

Rengin Zembat, Burcu Özdemir Beceren, Tuba Şengül and F. Özge Ünsal

317

26. Examining Elementary Second Grade Students'

Level of Knowledge about Air Pollution

Ayşe Sert Çibik, Elvan İnce Aka, Pınar Fettahlioğlu, Ezgi Güven, Alev Doğan, Erdinç Öcal

329

27. Assessment of Breakfast Habits of Elemantary

School Students and their Participation Levels in Classroom

Leyla Özgen and Yücel Gelişli

341

28. The Effects on Teacher Candidate's Point of Views Related to Teaching Profession after

Practice of School Experience Course-I

Yücel Gelişli

357

29. Actively Engaging ALL Students in Learning

Christine Bond 377

30. Examining Teachers’ Beliefs and Implementation

of Comprehension Strategies in a Balanced Literacy Framework

Gary E. Bingham and John E. Kesner

383

Part IV: Teaching and Teachers: Higher Education

31. Criticisms of Higher Education during the

Cromwellian Period in Britain

Marek Smoluk

407

32. Assessing Preschool Children’s Attitudes towards

Animals

Ilkay Ulutas and Serap Demiriz

419

33. An Analysis of the Effects of Pre-School

Educational Settings on Six-Year–Old Children’s

Social Adaptations

Filiz Erbay, Gözde İnal and Esra Ömeroğlu

427

34. The Effects of Active Methodologies on the High

Schools Student's Pro-Social Behaviour:

Teachers' Views Alessia Carta and Carla Podda

439

35. Preschool Teachers about Introducing Special

Educational Principles of Reggio Emilia Concept

in Slovene Curriculum for Preschool Education Tatjana Devjak, Sanja Berčnik and Srečko Devjak

455

36. The Study of Pre-School Teachers’ Practices for

Preparation for Literacy Adalet Kandir, Özgün Uyanik, Münevver Can-Yaşar and Gözde Inal

469

37. Young People and Risk: Perceptions and Possibilities

Steve Dixon, Madeline Martyn, Dave Trotman and Stan Tucker

481

38. Evaluating of Information Literacy Skills of Prospective Primary Teachers with Respect to

some Variables

Mustafa Kahyaoglu, M. İkbal Yetişir and Firat G. Birel

497

39. Training Motivation in Academia: Antecedents of

Participating Voluntarily in Professional Development

Alexandra Nikitopoulos and Silke Weisweiler

513

Part V: Special Essays

40. An International Exploration: The Influence of

National Culture on the Identity of Catholic

School Leaders and Their Creation of a Catholic

School Community Culture Merylann J. Schuttloffel

533

41. Capacity Building for School Improvement:

Knowledge Production and Utilization Patricia Stringer

547

42. What does Chemistry have to do with Art?

Monika Kuchnowski 567

43. Curricular Commonalities in Conflicted

Countries: U.S., Rwanda, and Cyprus

Nancy Strow Sheley

579

44. Academic Writing and Learning in an Era of

Singularity

Yitzhak Ezuz

589

45. Is Euclidean Geometry Still Relevant?

The Case of a Quaternionic Algorithm Michael Aristidou

603

46. Effect of Repeated Reading Technique on

Reading Comprehension Skills Emine Seda Gün

615

47. The Relationship between Dietary Iron

Consumption and School Achievement

Saime Küçükkömürler, Suzan Şeren Karakuş and Orhan Yavuz

631

48. Identifying the Qualities of the Administrations

Giving Service on Catering and Banquet, the Educational Background of the Staff and the

Necessities of Vocational Education in the Sector

Saime Küçükkömürler, Mehmet Güllü and Bülent Topal

639

49. Lexical Semantics and Deverbal Nominalizations

in Sesotho

Pule Alexis Phindane

649

List of Contributors

Elvan İnce Aka, Research Assistant, Gazi University, Gazi Education Faculty Department of Science Education, Turkey Darja Antolin, Assistant, University of Maribor, Faculty of Education, Slovenia Michael Aristidou, Adjunct Professor, Northwestern State University, USA Mustafa Aydoğdu, Professor Doctor, Gazi University, Gazi Education Faculty Department of Science Education, Turkey

Esra Benli, Master Student, Gazi University, Turkey Burcu Özdemir Beceren, MA, Marmara University, İstanbul, Turkey Sanja Berčnik, Assistant (to professor), Faculty of Education, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia Gary E. Bingham, Assistant Professor, Georgia State University, USA

Firat G. Birel, Faculty of Education, Siirt University, Turkey

Christine Bond, Assistant Professor, Salve Regina University, USA Normand Bourgault, Professor, Université du Québec en Outaouais, Ottawa, Canada

Elena Bundaleska, Assistant Professor, University American College Skopje, Fyrom Daniela M. Campos, Assistant Professor, ESEIG-IPP, Portugal Münevver Can-Yaşar, PhD, Afyon Kocatepe University, Education Faculty, Department of Early Childhood Education, Turkey

Alessia Carta, Researcher, University of Cagliari, Italy

Ayşe Sert Çıbık, Research Assistant, Gazi University, Gazi Education Faculty Department of Science Education, Turkey

Serap Demiriz, Assistant Professor, Department of Early childhood Development and Education, Gazi University, Turkey

Jean-François Desbiens, Full Professor, Vice-dean of Teaching and Learning and International Affairs, Université de Sherbrooke,

Canada Srečko Devjak, Full Professor, Faculty of Administration, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia

Tatjana Devjak, PhD, Associate Professor, Faculty of Education, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia Makedonka Dimitrova, Assistant Professor, University American College Skopje, Fyrom Steve Dixon, Senior Lecturer in Education, Newman University College, UK Alev Dogan, Associate Professor, Gazi University, Turkey

Amos Dreyfus, Professor, The Hebrew University in Jerusalem, Israel Filiz Erbay, Research Assistant, Selçuk University, Faculty of Vocational Education, Department of Child Development and Education,Turkey

Yitzhak Ezuz, Department for Training Principals in Beit Berl College, Israel Pınar Fettahlıoğlu, Research Assistant, Gazi University, Gazi Education Faculty Department of Science Education, Turkey

Yücel Gelişli, Associated Professor, Gazi University Art and Design of Faculty, Department of Education Science, Turkey University, Turkey

Maria de Fátima Goulão, Assistant Professor, Department of Education and Distance Learning – Universidade Aberta, Portugal Jens Graff, Associate Professor, SolBridge International School of Business, Woosong University, South Korea

Mehmet Güllü, Research Assistant, Gazi University Faculty of Vocational Education, Food and Nutrition Education Department,

Turkey

Emine Seda Gün, PhD Student, Hacettepe University, Institute of Social Sciences, Turkey Ezgi Güven, Research Assistant, Gazi University, Gazi Education Faculty Department of Science Education, Turkey

Wei-Chen Hong, Master Student, National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan Gözde İnal, Research Assistant, Kocatepe University, Faculty of Education, Preschool Education, Turkey

Mustafa Kahyaoglu, Professor, Faculty of Education, Siirt University, Turkey

Adalet Kandir, Gazi University, Education Faculty, Department of Early Childhood Education, Turkey John E. Kesner, Associate Professor, Georgia State University, USA

Angeliki Kostopoulou, Lecturer, Birmingham City University, UK Monika Kuchnowski, Visiting Researcher, King’s College London, UK Saime Küçükkömürler, Associate Professor, Gazi University Faculty of Vocational Education, Food and Nutrition Education Department, Turkey

Suzan Şeren Karakuş, Dr., University Faculty of Vocational Education, Food and Nutrition Education Department, Turkey

Sèverine Lanoue, Kinesiologist Alenka Lipovec, Associate Professor, University of Maribor, Faculty of Education, Slovenia

Madeline Martyn, Researcher, Newman University College, UK David Moisan, Auxiliary Researcher, Télé-université, Québec, Canada

Alireza Mousavi, Lecturer, System Engineering Research Group (SERG), Brunel University, UK Emmanuel Mushayikwa, Post-doctoral Research Fellow, School of Science and Mathematics Education, University of the Western Cape, Cape Town, South Africa

Alexandra Nikitopoulos, Research Assistant, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Germany Erdinç Öcal, PhD Student, Gazi University, Gazi Education Faculty Department of Science Education, Turkey

Esra Ömeroğlu, Professor Doctor, Gazi University, Faculty of Vocational Education Department of Child Development and Education, Turkey

Sara B. Oswalt, Assistant Professor, Department of Health and Kinesiology, University of Texas at San Antonio, USA Pinar Özdemir, Lecturer, Hacettepe University, Turkey

Leyla Özgen, Assistant Professor, Gazi University, Art and Design of Faculty, Department of Education Food and Nutrition, Turkey

Howard P. Parette, Jr., Professor, Department of Special Education, Illinois State University, USA

Pule Alexis Phindane, Lecturer, Central University of Technology, Free State, South Africa

Carla Podda, Researcher, University of Cagliari, Italy

Ana C. Queiroz, Professor, ESEIG-IPP, Portugal Nicole Racette, Professor, Télé-université, Québec, Canada

Jetse C. Reijenga, Department of Chemical Engineering and Chemistry, Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands Martin Roy, Full Professor Louise Sauvé, Professor, Télé-université, Québec, Canada

Merylann J. Schuttloffel, Chair, Department of Education, Associate Professor of Education, The Catholic University of America, USA Tuba Şengül, MA, Gazi University, Ankara, Turkey Mona Shekarriz, PhD Student, System Engineering Research Group (SERG), Brunel University, UK Mary H. Shann, Professor, Boston University School of Education, USA Nancy Strow Sheley, Associate Professor, California State University, USA Marek Smoluk, Assistant Professor (adiunkt), Department of English Philology, University of Zielona Góra, Poland

Carlo Spallanzani, Full Professor Patricia Stringer, Assistant Professor, Emirates College for Advanced Education, Abu Dhabi Yun-Ting Su, Master Student,National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan Daniel Tixier, Professor, ESSEC Business School, France

Bülent Topal, Gazi University Faculty of Vocational Education, Food and Nutrition Education Department, Turkey

Jean-Sébastien Tourigny, Health and Physical Educator Dave Trotman, Principal Lecturer in Education, Newman University College, UK

Stan Tucker, Emeritus Professor of Education and Social Policy, Newman University College, UK Sylvain Turcotte, Full Professor Ilkay Ulutas, Assistant Professor, Department of Early childhood Development and Education, Gazi University, Turkey F. Özge Ünsal, Marmara University, İstanbul, Turkey Inara Upmale, PhD Student in Educational Management Program, University of Latvia, Latvia Özgün Uyanik, Afyon Kocatepe University, Education Faculty Department of Early Childhood Education, Turkey

Esther Vinken, Service for Personnel and Organization, Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands Yehudith Weinberger, Lecturer, Kibbutzim College of Education,

Israel Silke Weisweiler, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Germany Carlos Gabriel Wong-Martínez, Library Director and Associate Professor, SolBridge International School of Business, Woosong Univeristy, Korea David Wray, Professor, University of Warwick Institute of Education, UK

Tammy J. Wyatt, Associate Professor, Department of Health and Kinesiology, University of Texas at San Antonio, USA Orhan Yavuz, University Faculty of Vocational Education, Food and Nutrition Education Department, Turkey

M.İkbal Yetişir, Faculty of Education, Gazi University, Turkey

Shelley Shwu-Ching Young, Professor, National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan Rengin Zembat, PhD, Marmara University, İstanbul, Turkey

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Issues on Education and Research: Volume 3: An Introduction

Gregory T. Papanikos, Director, ATINER, Greece

Issues on Education and Research: Volume 3 includes

selected papers on special topics in education that were presented at various conferences organized by the Athens

Institute for Education and Research in 2009, 2010 and 2011.

More than 400 participants attended the three conferences on Education alone from Europe, North America, South America,

Africa, Australia, and Asia. The conferences’ papers covered a

variety of topics in education ranging from teaching and instruction to technology and economics. The current volume

includes selected papers on special topics in education from

those presented at the conference. All papers have undergone an academic peer review by members of the academic community.

The forty nine essays presented in this volume give readers an

understanding of Technology and Information, Education and

the Market Place, Teaching and Teachers: Early, Primary and Secondary, Teaching and Teachers: Higher Education and

Special Essays.

This conference provides a singular opportunity for presenters from all over the world to meet and share ideas with

the aim of expanding the understanding of our discipline. The

fifty papers in this volume were selected for inclusion after a process of blind-review by at least two of the editors and

reviewers. The volume is organized roughly along traditional

lines. This should not, however, mislead a reader into supposing that the topics or approaches to problems fall neatly into

traditional categories.

The selection of papers chosen for inclusion gives some sense

of the variety of topics addressed at the conferences. However, it would be impossible in an edited volume to ensure coverage of

the full extent of diversity of the subject matter and approaches

brought to the conference itself by the participants, some of whom could not travel to one another's home countries without

enormous difficulty.

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